Chocolate Covered and Sexy in Monclair

BY  |  Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012 1:00pm  |  COMMENTS (7)

You just read the headline and thought this article was about chocolate covered sex or people who have sex in chocolate didn’t you? Nice. The day of hearts, flowers, chocolate and odd fat babies with adult looking faces holding a bow and a heart-tipped arrow is fast approaching next week, and you have no clue what to buy for those special people in your life. Here are four stores that embody everything wonderful about retail.  Every one of these  store owners has PASSION about their store and what they carry, and they make shopping locally a pleasure. Continue Reading

Murder at Mission and Bloomfield Ave.

BY ,  |  Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012 10:34am  |  COMMENTS (35)

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a man was murdered on Mission Street in Montclair last night. Breaking News Network reported gunshots at the intersection of Mission and Bloomfield Ave. shortly after 9 p.m.
Thomas Reynolds, president of The Montclair Branch of the NAACP, identified the victim as Ibn Futrell, a former Montclair High School student who was in his mid-20s.  Reynolds said he knew a good friend of the victim, and the two spent the night “talking about this horrible thing.”

The NAACP, along with Fourth Ward Councilor Renee Baskerville, will hold a community meeting on Thursday night at 8 p.m. at the Fire Headquarters on Pine Street to address safety in the area.   Continue Reading

Concerned Citizens of Montclair: Water and Sewer Wages Don’t Match Up

BY  |  Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012 9:18am  |  COMMENTS (14)

The Concerned Citizens of Montclair (CCM) continue to advocate for a transparent municipal budget process and to request that the town make financial and operating information accessible to its residents. Via the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), CCM has requested extensive financial data from the town (data that should already be on the town’s website) and here is one of our findings relating to 2011 Total Salary and Wages for the Water and Sewer Utilities: Continue Reading

Council Votes Yes to Wildwood

BY  |  Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012 9:01am  |  COMMENTS (20)

After months of controversy, the Montclair council voted last night to go ahead with a plan to build affordable housing on Wildwood Ave. Councilors Cary Africk and Rich Murnick opposed the measure.

Despite the need for Montclair Township Manager Marc Dashield to bring the council up to speed on the plans to prepare the 2012 budget, the Wildwood properties issue dominated the February 7 meeting.  An attempt by First Ward Councilor Rich Murnick to table a resolution authorizing the auction of the two vacant lots on Wildwood Avenue with deed restrictions for affordable housing was defeated, with only Murnick and Second Ward Councilor Cary Africk voting to table it.  The vote to approve it was the opposite; Murnick and Africk both voted against it, with the rest of the council approving it.  Seventy percent of the vacant land would still remain open space. Continue Reading

Getting Jazzed At Highlawn Pavilion

BY  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 4:00pm  |  COMMENTS (15)

A tempting menu, elegant setting and the chance to dress up and get together brought a group of baristas out to Highlawn Pavilion to check out the restaurant’s new jazz menu. The field trip was a hit.

Highlights of Highlawn’s jazz menu ($29 prix fixe, offered Wednesdays and Fridays) included a tasting of tuna and salmon tartare, Wagyu hanger steak in red wine sauce, a sauteed striped bass with shallot sauce (pictured) and an off-the-hook chocolate tasting. Continue Reading

Win Free Tickets to Vertical Road

BY  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 2:57pm  |  COMMENTS (9)

UPDATE: Thanks, we have our winners!

Haunting, dreamlike and winner of the 2011 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography, Akram Khan Company’s Vertical Road will be presented at MSU’s Kasser Theater Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Peak Performances has five pairs of tickets to give away to Baristanet readers for tomorrow night’s performance (Wed. Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.) Just be one of the first five to tell us in the comments. Continue Reading

Police Snipers Guard Rally as Students Proclaim “Human Rights are Sexy”

BY ,  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 1:08pm  |  COMMENTS (11)

Montclarion editor-in-chief Katherine Milsop, reporting to us live via mobile phone, says police presence at MSU’s unity rally is heavy — with police snipers posted on rooftops, and police on motorcycles and horses. About 100 people have congregated, many wearing purple in solidarity with the threatened gay community, bearing signs that say “Human Rights are Sexy,” “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself,” “MSU Was Born This Way,”  and “Conversation Not Confrontation.”

Read more background on the death threats to MSU here. Continue Reading

Valentines Contest: How Did You Meet Your Sweetie?

BY  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 11:41am  |  COMMENTS (33)

My original job-hunting letter, framed and presented by my honey on our 25th wedding anniversary.

UPDATE: An extra prize!

Here’s my story: 1983. I had finished graduate school in North Carolina and was looking for jobs in New York, collecting names of everybody and anybody in the journalism business. Someone gave me the name of AP Radio’s correspondent in New York,  who had worked at WCHL in Chapel Hill a few years before I got there. My very first Monday in New York I called him. Twice. When we met for lunch that Thursday, I asked if he knew anyone who used freelancers. He did. I started working for him, doing five-minute radio features for $25 a pop, and was charmed by the news poems he recited from memory in his radio studio. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Bloomfield Council Stalled on Open Space Change

BY  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 11:11am  |  COMMENTS (1)

The Bloomfield Council failed to pass an amendment to the township’s Open Space Trust Fund at last night’s council meeting, with the vote tied 3-3.

The amendment would have allowed the township to use funds from the Open Space Trust Fund for maintenance of town parks and historical sites within the township, in addition to the acquisition and maintenance of new property for open space. The amendment to the ordinance would set aside $265,000 per year to be used for maintenance of public parks. The establishment of the Open Space Trust Fund was approved by public referendum in 2001, and currently holds approximately $1.9 million. Continue Reading

Bloomfield Crime: Shoplifter Threatens Home Depot Guard With Knife

BY  |  Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012 10:19am  |  COMMENTS (1)

Just in from the Bloomfield Police, last week in crime in 07003:

ROBBERY

2-6-2012 60 Orange Stree [Home Depot]. At 0755 hours, a suspect threatened a security guard with a knife as he was fleeing the store with stolen merchandise.

2-06-2012 Washington street at Lackawanna Plaza. At 2235 hours, the victim stated that he was approached and surrounded by three male suspects, one of which demanded his cell phone. Two of the suspects were apprehended minutes later by patrol officers responding to a 9-1-1 call from the victim. Continue Reading

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Perhaps yesterday's heavy police presence would have been better applied to Mission Street than to the Montclair State campus.
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